big lie within the department of justice. and encouraging the act attorney general and his deputy to use the department of justice to investigate fraud claims that are no basis in fact. clark was also someone who when subpoenaed by the january 6 select committee was pretty defiant. now he did come to congress, he came in front of the committee but once he was behind closed doors to sit for his interview, he wouldn t answer any questions. claimed that he had executive privilege claims and also claimed that there was some level of attorney/client privilege that prevented him from answering questions. committee disagreed and believe he has a responsible to answer the questions that is why they re taking this step. important to point out this rarely happens, before the steve bannon criminal context referral, the last time this happened was during the reagan administration and it now happened twice in a couple of months. thank you, ryan. twitter ceo jack dorsey is out effectively immedi
telling them the truth. the defendant on doubtly was aware in light of his many years working with the fbi that lying to the fbi carries serious consequences. well, nonetheless, those same prosecutors also stood by their recommendation that flynn s sentence be at the low end of the guidelines range because of how much he has agreed to cooperate. he pleaded guilty in 2015, the charge was lying to the fbi about his conversations with the russian kbamambassador, sergey kislyak. then on the 26th of january, the act attorney general, sally yates tells the white house about flynn lying and being vulnerable to blackmail. february 9th, the washington post breaks the news that flynn talked to kislyak about sanctions. february 13th, flynn resigns.
veteran of the armed forces knows he should not lie to federal agents. he does not need to be warned it is a crime to lie to federal agents to know the importance of telling them the truth. the defendant undoubtedly was aware in light of his many years working with the fbi that lying to the fbi carries serious consequences. well, nonetheless, those same prosecutors also stood by their recommendation that flynn s sentence be at the low end of the guidelines range because of how much he has agreed to cooperate. flynn entered a guilty plea back in december, 2017. the charge was lying to the fbi about his conversations with the russian ambassador, this guy, sergey kislyak in the weeks before trump took office. his interview took place january 24 of 2017. then on the 26th of january, the act attorney general, sally yates tells the white house about flynn lying and being
underlying conduct is based object classified information so i cannot reveal what that underlying conduct is. but apparently she told the white house that underlying conduct was problematic in and of itself, in addition to the fact that he was lying about it. what was the underlying conduct? when the narnls adviser was fired 24 days into the new administration, after what we know was an simplicity warning from the outgoing president that mike flynn should not be hired, that there were serious concerns about him. after he was hired anyway, the white house line was that he had to be fired because he lied to other people at the white house, particularly the vice president about his contacts with the russian government. well, now we know from the act attorney general at the time that in addition to mike flynn lying about his contact with the russian government, there was also something problematic about his ubds lying conduct and it s
attorney general along with somebody you could reasonably include is the other senior kreerd justice department person there, the person who was then serving as the acting chief. that person is a career justice department official who was only leaving that job now. but in that job, she has been overseeing all the trump and russia investigations, so it s we believe the head of the national security division at the department of justice, the act attorney general, they go to the white house. unbelievably senior people handling this personally. they go to the white house, they go to the office the white house counsel. this is the white hse counsel, done mcbegan. again, attorney genel, we believe the national security division chief at doj, they rushed to the white house without even waiting for the fbi agents to write up their report